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Cleisostoma Scolopendrifolium Son et al. Journal of Ecology and Environment (2019) 43:3 Journal of Ecology https://doi.org/10.1186/s41610-018-0102-3 and Environment SHORTCOMMUNICATION Open Access Pollination of Cleisostoma scolopendrifolium (Orchidaceae) by megachilid bees and determinants of fruit set in southern South Korea Hyun-Deok Son1, Hyoung-Tak Im2 and Sei-Woong Choi3* Abstract We investigated the pollinators of Centipede’sfootorchid(Cleisostoma scolopendrifolium) at five locations in southern Korea. Only one species of megachilid bee (Megachile yasumatsui) was observed at three of the sites (Mokpo, Haenam, and Wando). We assumed that the megachilid bee worked as a sole pollinator of C. scolopendrifolium based on the visiting behavior of the bees the attached pollinia. Fruits were observed at the three locations that bees visited: 74% fruit set at Mokpo, 59% at Wando, and 31% at Haenam. By contrast, at two of the locations where megachilid bees did not visit the plants (Naju and Jindo), there were no fruits set. The differences in fruit set rates at the three orchid populations where bees were observed appear to be related to bee abundance and flower visitation rate rather than to differences in flower abundance. The pollination interaction between C. scolopendrifolium and megachilid bees appears to involve sexual deception since only male bees were attracted to the flowers. The underlying mechanism involved in this interaction needs investigation. Keywords: Pollinator, Cleisostoma scolopendrifolium, Megachilid bee, Fruit set, Korean peninsula Background pollinia (pollen masses) on male bees, and lack additional The pollination ecology of orchid (Orchidaceae) has floral rewards such as nectar, pollen, or pseudopollen. attracted the attention of many scientists including In non-autogamous orchids, a single season pollinator Charles Darwin. Although the majority of pollination limitation to fruit setting is strongly indicated by a low network between animals and plants involves food re- natural fruit set rate reflected by an extraordinarily high wards such as nectar and pollen to the pollinators, or- proportion of flowering individuals that do not set fruit, chids are exceptional in that as many as one third of presumably because of a lack of pollinators (Darwin the 30,000 or so species achieve pollination by decep- 1877). For example, Tolumnia variegate, a small twig tion; for example, they may lure pollinators to the epiphyte in the West Indies has an extremely low nat- flower by using a food deceptive, advertising the pres- ural fruit set rate, often below 5% (Ackerman and Oliver ence of food by displaying bright colors and sweet scents 1985). However, hand pollination results in a marked in- (Jersakova et al. 2006;Ledford2007). In addition, they can crease in fruit set, to over 70% (Calvo 1993). Similarly, use sexual deception, as more than 600 species of orchids Disa tenuifolia in South Africa depends on the exploit- have evolved adaptations for pollination by male euglos- ation of instinctive foraging and territorial behavior of sines (Dodson et al. 1969). Euglossine-pollinated orchids male megachilid bees and its fruiting success is pollin- produce attractive volatile compounds (terpenes and aro- ator dependent (Johnson and Steiner 1994). matics), exhibit intricate mechanisms for the attachment of Over 100 species of Cleisostoma have been reported in tropical and subtropical Asia and Australia (Wood * Correspondence: [email protected] 2014). Cleisostoma scolopendrifolium, an epiphyte or- 3Department of Environmental Education, Mokpo National University, 1666 chid that grows on rocks, has been recorded on sub- Youngsan-ro, Chungkye-myon, Muan, Jeonnam 58554, South Korea tropical and temperate trees of Northeast Asia, Full list of author information is available at the end of the article © The Author(s). 2019 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. Son et al. Journal of Ecology and Environment (2019) 43:3 Page 2 of 5 including Korea, Japan, and China. The extent of occur- pre-study observations of the sites (Son et al. 2017), we rence of this species in Korea has been estimated to be selected the peak time of insect visits (between 9:00 and 2000 km2 (National Institute of Biological Resources 11:00 a.m.) as the time to record insect visits. The visit- 2014). Each year, C. scolopendrifolium plants produce a ing behaviors of the bee were classified into two types: new rhizome that ends in a vegetative shoot composed of “searching” and “staying.” If a bee approached to a 6–10-mm-long leaves. The inflorescence is a 1- or 2-flow- flower but only moved around and did not land, the be- ered raceme, located laterally, and often shorter than havior was recorded as “searching.” If a bee landed on a leaves. In Korea, most C. scolopendrifolium flower late in flower and stayed on that flower for more 10 s, the be- July. This orchid species is self-incompatible and insect havior was recorded as “staying” (Table 2). pollinated. The pollinator species of C. scolopendrifolium in Mokpo, South Korea, is assumed to be male megachilid Determination of fruit set bees, based on the observation that only male megachilid To estimate fruit sets, we monitored 1.0 m2 quadrats at bees have visited the orchid and the occurrence of pollinia each C. scolopendrifolium sampling site during the attached to the head of flower-visiting megachilid bees period in which the plant flowered and set fruit. We (Son et al. 2017). counted flowers of orchid populations between 19 July There is a large body of literature describing the pol- 2018 and 26 July 2018 and counted fruits between 11 lination biology of orchids worldwide. However, there August 2018 and 15 August 2018. The fruit set rate was is little information on the pollination ecology of or- measured by calculating the fruit to flower ratio in each chid species in Korea. This study aimed to confirm quadrat. that male megachilid bees are the unique pollinators of C. scolopendrifolium in southern Korea and to der- Results termine whether pollinator visitation affects the fruit- Is the male megachilid bee the special pollinator of C. ing of the orchid. scolopendrifolium? Only male Megachile yasumatsui were observed visiting Materials and methods C. scolopendrifolium flowers at the MP, HN, and WD Study sites sites. Megachilid bees searched 68 flowers and stayed on In this study, we included five separate populations of 19 flowers at MP, searched 28 flowers and stayed on 6 Cleisostoma scolopendrifolium, all located in the south- flowers at WD and searched 11 flowers and stayed on 3 ern part of the Korean peninsula: Mt. Yudalsan in the flowers at HN. Orchid pollinia were observed to be at- city of Mokpo (MP), Mt. Galdusan of Haenam county tached to the heads of megachilid bees that searched (HN), Gunoe-myeon of Wando county (WD), near Dado and stayed on the orchid flowers at MP, HN, and WD reservoir close to Naju city (NJ) and Mt. Geumgolsan of (Fig. 1). No bee searched or stayed on the orchid flowers Jindo county (JD) and all in the province of Jeollanamdo at JD. On one occasion, a honey bee was observed at NJ. (Table 1). These five sites were geographically separated. No orchid pollinia were attached to the body of the We selected sites that had orchid plants present over an honey bee at NJ. area of at least 1.0 m2 because small areas with sparsely occurring flowers may affect pollinator visit frequency Do visit frequencies of pollinator enhance fruit set? (Dauber et al. 2010). Fruit setting occurred at each of the three sites where male megachilid bees visited C. scolopendrifolium plants. Pollinators Fruit set rates were 74% (111 fruits among 151 flowers) We observed the insect visitors to each of the five separ- at MP, 59% (366 fruits among 620 flowers) at WD, and ate C. scolopendrifolium sites. To estimate flower-visiting 31% (171 fruits among 547 flowers) at HN. The C. frequencies, the numbers of insects that visited flowers in each quadrat at each site were counted. Based on Table 2 Fruit set rates and bee visit behavior at five Cleisostoma Table 1 Observation sites of Cleisostoma scolopendrifolium orchid scolopendrifolium sites. For site information, see Table 1 in southern South Korea Site No. of No. of Fruit set Visitor No. of flower visited flowers fruits (%) Site Location Patch size species Searching Staying 2 MP Mt. Yudalsan, Mokpo City, Jeollanamdo 2 m MP 151 111 74 Megachile yasumatsui 67 16 WD Sinhak-ri, Wando County, Jeollanamdo 2 m2 WD 620 366 59 Megachile yasumatsui 28 6 NJ Near Dado Reservoir, Naju City, Jeollanamdo 1600 m2 HN 547 171 31 Megachile yasumatsui 11 3 HN Mt. Galdusan, Haenam County, Jeollanamdo 1.5 m2 NJ 488 0 0 Apis mellifera 11 JD Mt. Geumgolsan, Jindo County, Jeollanamdo Distributed by patch JD 166 0 0 ––– Son et al. Journal of Ecology and Environment (2019) 43:3 Page 3 of 5 Fig. 1 Life history of Cleisostoma scolopendrifolium and male megachilid bee pollinator in southern South Korea. a.Orchidpopulationat Wando. b. Pollinia matured. c. After pollination. d.Fruit.e. Pollinia attached to the bee head. f. Megachilid bee pollinator visitation scolopendrifolium plants observed at NJ and JD, where appendiculata and Cymbidium goeringii showed low no megachilid bees were observed, failed to produce fruit set rates in natural condition (1.3–2.0% and 0.4– fruit (Table 2).
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